Sentences with phrase «form a government alone»

The Conservatives were unable to form a government alone as they had fewer seats despite receiving more votes numerically.

But for all the bluster, the partisan reporting appears to have had little impact on the campaigns; both Labour and the Conservatives are locked in the low to mid-30s in terms of party support and polls are predicting neither party will have enough seats to form a government alone.

Not exact matches

Raising the electoral mountain Labour would need to climb to form a Government, exercising minority or coalition rule let alone governing with a majority, is an unexpected gift for the fifth largest force in UK politics: Momentum.

I can not be alone in thinking that it would be more beneficial for the government to be spending their scarce pennies on recovering lost VAT and creating an education programme to make it easier for individuals - and businesses - to fill in their tax forms correctly, when a massive two - thirds (65.9 %) of the lost revenue comes from these areas.

If the Conservatives or Labour are unable to put together a coalition or decide to go it alone, they can form a minority government, filling all the ministerial positions themselves.

Throughout Cameron's five years running a coalition government he could not act alone, since ministerial appointments formed key parts of the coalition agreement, although he reshuffled Tory ministers a bit.

The Conservatives need 326 seats to govern alone, but will look to Democratic Unionists MPs to see if it can form a functioning government.

It is possible that, as polling day approaches, the electorate will after all galvanise around the big two, since they alone can form governments.

He can't get seven points ahead of Labour, let alone ten points - and that's the kind of lead he needs to form a majority Government.